Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. IoA Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceded by tea at 15:30 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer. Joint Colloquia with the Cavendish Astrophysics group are on a Tuesday or Thursday.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks at the IoA.

Additional Talks Information

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Tuesday 09 March 2021

Anne-Marie Lagrange, Observatoire de Paris

Beta Pictoris: a laboratory of planetary system formation... and of planetary systems investigation.

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Alex Hackett

Modelling Thorne-Zytkow Objects

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:30-14:00
Venue: Webinar (via Zoom online)  [details]

Rosie Talbot

Blandford-Znajek jets in galaxy formation simulations

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 14:00-14:30
Venue: Webinar (via Zoom online)  [details]

Thursday 11 March 2021

Emma Chapman (Imperial)

Uncovering the Epoch of Reionization

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: ONLINE - Details will be sent by email  [details]

Friday 12 March 2021

Michael McDonald (MIT)

The Evolution and Limitations of AGN Feedback in Massive Galaxies

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: via zoom  [details]

Tuesday 16 March 2021

Caroline Terquem (Oxford)

Observations of stellar oscillations induced by hot Jupiters

Series: Exoplanet Meetings
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Wednesday 17 March 2021

Andy Buchan

TBC

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:30-14:00
Venue: Webinar (via Zoom online)  [details]

Joanna Piotrowska

TBC

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 14:00-14:30
Venue: Webinar (via Zoom online)  [details]

Thursday 18 March 2021

Payel Das (Surrey)

The story of our Galaxy, as told by Gaia

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: ONLINE - Details will be sent by email  [details]

Friday 26 March 2021

Xiaohan Wu (Harvard)

Probing reionization with the Lyman-alpha forest and the CMB

Series: Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: via zoom  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Monday 08 March 2021

Koh Takahashi - AEI Potsdam

Modeling of magneto-rotational stellar evolution and the first application (Subscribe to receive Zoom link)

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Raman Sundrum (University of Maryland)

Cosmology and Unification

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)

Testing the Cosmological Principle

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Friday 12 March 2021

Amelia Drew (DAMTP)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Zoom  [details]

Monday 15 March 2021

Charlotte Sleight (Durham University)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology Lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room]  [details]

Can Cui - DAMTP, Cambridge

Gas dynamics in outer regions of protoplanetary disk (Subscribe to receive Zoom link)

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Wednesday 17 March 2021

Zvi Bern (UCLA)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: ONLINE - Details to be sent by email  [details]

Monday 26 April 2021

George Mamatsashvili - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Monday 10 May 2021

Caroline Terquem - University of Oxford

Interaction between fast tides and convection

Series: DAMTP Astro Mondays
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: Online  [details]

Friday 14 May 2021

Max Corman (Perimeter)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Zoom  [details]